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Big rise in food bank users
Britain’s biggest food bank charity, the Trussell Trust, has revealed a huge leap in the numbers of people needing emergency food parcels in the past year.
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FactCheck Q&A: are a million people using foodbanks?
Britain’s biggest food bank charity says more than 1 million needy people received free food in 2014/15, the biggest number on record. The Trussell Trust says it gave food aid to 1,084,604 people compared to 913,138 in 2013/14 – a 19 per cent increase. Jeremy Paxman tried to corner David Cameron on the growing use…
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FactCheck: Cameron’s blind spots on zero hours and food banks
Did David Cameron dodge questions on food banks and zero hours contracts during last night’s interview with Jeremy Paxman?
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FactCheck: is the government starving the poor?
Bishops think there is a link between food poverty and government welfare reforms. But what is the hard evidence?
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FactCheck: are food banks plugging the benefits gap?
Charities say poor people are flocking to food banks because of weaknesses in the welfare state. Is that fair?
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Food banks: is Cameron on the money?
David Cameron says the use of food banks rose tenfold under Labour. What’s the FactCheck verdict?
